So many people playing as miqo'te!!

[Parodine]

Miqote females have the best animations and E-motes.

Lalafell actually have the best emotes. I don't have an opinion about the animations though.

[Ilitsa]

I play as one because I don't like my character to be huge and muscle-y like the Roe women are, don't get me wrong, they're gorgeous too, just not my style. The Elezen aren't bad either, at the time though I hadn't seen any that looked really gorgeous, the neck set me off for them, that's changed more recently though, I don't know if people are just better at accentuating the Elezen figure, or if the neck got a little touch up at some point or what, but yeah. Lalafell, while I agree with Parodine, they DO have the best emotes imo (that /happy is just too damn adorable), I like my characters to look sexy (note: not slutty), so that didn't really fit either, I was a midlander at first but didn't like her running and sprinting animations, so Femqo'te was the next step for me. I DO plan to go Au Ra though simply because I LOVE dragons/dragonkin in every rpg that has that option, i've always been it.

[Fenral]

Miqote females have the best animations and E-motes.

Corrected.

[Eye_Gore]

Every game I have played that you could choose male or female, always was male, because i am one. So when I had to make a character for this game figured why not change it up. But then what female to play, really had no preference. Fate decided it for me. Just then while trying to make my choice, we have 2 cats one male one female, well needless to say I guess one can see which one just walked into the room.

[myahele]

I recently switched from miqote to highlander yesterday. Too many boy kitties and not enough Highlanders. Still getting used to my highlander though (the height) but I've received compliments already, so $10 well spent

[Jamez82]

I play as a Hyur male but I know what you're getting at. I don't get people who say they don't want to play a guy because they don't want to look at male butt. The gameplay doesn't involve you looking at your characters rear end, you should be paying attention to what you're doing.

Why would people stare at butts anyways? It doesn't do anything, it's just a body part. There's a giant behemoth swinging at you, pay attention to that.

[Fleur]

Well, if you want to play a fairly "normal/human" looking character it is pretty much Hyur or Miqo'te. And a lot of people prefer Miqo'te animations (esp. the run). On my server at least, Miqo'te males are way less common than the females though, and while not rare you aren't tripping over them every corner either.

I am puzzled as to why Highlander ladies don't balance out the female population more, though. Sure, they're 5'8"+, but if you aren't a dunce with the character creator you can make a total bombshell, even a sweet pretty one if you like. Is being a little on the tall side even more of a deterrent than the oft-mocked Midlander female run?

[Yumi_umi]

I forsee a lot of lalas and mi'qote turning into au ra. ( cuz they technically make 50%+ of a server races. ) so au ra will be new master race. And i'm for sure joining the au ra. Can still punt lalas in 3.0 yipee.

[abzoluut]

I think it's because it fits most jobs.

I initially wanted to go Elezen. Then I found out 1.94m was the "shortest" length to chose from. Long characters with knock knees just don't look cool.

[EdwinLi]

The Au Ra will rule in 3.0!